Thursday, December 4, 2014

Suicide Squad

So if you don't know by now DC comics is looking at making a movie out of the Suicide Squad.   The Suicide Squad?? Who, exactly is that you ask?  Well, the members vary but in the adaptation that DC wants to film we will have an all-star cast of today's actors and actresses playing the villainous members of the Suicide Squad who will be sent on an impossible mission to win their freedom.  The only problem is that the mission is tasked to be so dangerous that they are not expected to live.  Jared Leto has been cast as the Joker with Margo Robbie cast as his irascible side-kick diletante Harley Quinn.  Jai Courtney will be playing Booomerang and Cara Delevingne will be playing a character called the Enchantress.  Will Smith will play the peer-less Deadshot who never misses a target and Tom Hardy who played the deadly Bane in The Dark Knight Rises will be playing the Rick Flag the military handler who must pull this rag-tag band of killers and scoundrels together to accomplish their mission.  The concept is the same that was used in the The Dirty Dozen and Mission Impossible.
Here's why I'm intrigued about the Suicide Squad.  The cast is superb and well-rounded and bringing the characters to life will be exciting to watch.  The first time I found out who the Suicide Squad was during an episode of the Cartoon Network's Justice League episode titled "Task Force X".  It was a smooth noir-stylish episode that showed a group of villains who had been captured and tasked by the Colonel Rick Flagg into pulling off a mission on board the Justice League Satellite HQ and in true Suicide Squad tradition before they could get away they were forced to sacrifice a member of their crew.  A woman named Plastique who was the demolitions expert for the team.  If the movie proves to be just as cool and exciting as the episode and maybe better then I have high hopes for this movie to succeed.  But first we have to get through Superman vs Batman.  

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